dombleu Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 I forum! I just bought some pieces of hardware. The system is still in the mail, but I would be interested in what you CAD gurus think of the setup. Goals: - Best bang for the buck (as anyone would want I guess) - As portable as a good CAD station could be. (We're in 2009, 3 feet high towers are so 80's....) - no alien stuff (weird hardware, unknown brands, etc.... my turn is over in making things work, I now want them to work out of the box.) - good support of D3D and OpenGL for Acad 2009. What I bought: - Shuttle SX48P2E barebone - Intel 8500 dual core 3.16 GHz - 1 bar of 4G Kingston RAM - nvidia quadro fx 1800 Any toughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanjt Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 price? shuttle, i would love to replace my media center. I forum! I just bought some pieces of hardware. The system is still in the mail, but I would be interested in what you CAD gurus think of the setup. Goals: - Best bang for the buck (as anyone would want I guess) - As portable as a good CAD station could be. (We're in 2009, 3 feet high towers are so 80's....) - no alien stuff (weird hardware, unknown brands, etc.... my turn is over in making things work, I now want them to work out of the box.) - good support of D3D and OpenGL for Acad 2009. What I bought: - Shuttle SX48P2E barebone - Intel 8500 dual core 3.16 GHz - 1 bar of 4G Kingston RAM - nvidia quadro fx 1800 Any toughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankman Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Any thoughts? Sure, very nice. Have fun putting it together! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dombleu Posted August 23, 2009 Author Share Posted August 23, 2009 Well, for the price it will reach near 2000$ CAD (Canadian buck), approx. 1700 US, with a copy of win XP pro x64 and shipping and blablabla. And while it's not related to CAD, in this price I also have a DVD writer, wifi N card, and all it takes to make a PC usable. A correct price I think. I've been lucky, I found the barebone shuttle "re-certified" on ebay for a fraction of the price. Some might be left if you are looking for a small box! Anyone with an experience of the Quadro FX 1800? Or with an experience of fitting such a big PCI card in such a small PC box? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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